Microsoft Certification Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 190 218
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 115 237 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 1.29% 1.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.20% 4.00% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 84 172 132
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £56,563 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £68,625
England median annual salary £45,574 £45,000 £49,165
% change year-on-year +1.27% -8.47% +9.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,221 5,927 5,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 52.79% 32.30% 40.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 3,612 2,389
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,005 £29,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,603 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.11% +2.12%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +21 58 £42,500 +10.39% 102
Surrey +45 25 £45,000 -5.26% 38
Buckinghamshire +33 23 £35,000 -10.26% 29
Berkshire +12 18 £51,250 +62.70% 58
Oxfordshire +39 17 £28,500 -25.97% 17
Hampshire +9 11 £37,500 -5.66% 55
Kent +32 9 £30,000 -9.09% 23
Middlesex - 6 - - 23
East Sussex +24 4 £59,000 +27.57% 11
West Sussex +22 2 £50,000 +36.99% 19
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (3.48%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.43%) Azure
2 47 (40.87%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (14.78%) AWS
4 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 14 (12.17%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (12.17%) Entra ID
6 12 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.83%) GCP
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.09%) OneDrive
9 6 (5.22%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.22%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.48%) IaaS
10 4 (3.48%) PaaS
10 4 (3.48%) SaaS
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.61%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.74%) Copilot Studio
13 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.04%) DNS
2 13 (11.30%) DHCP
3 12 (10.43%) Firewall
4 9 (7.83%) VPN
5 7 (6.09%) Network Security
5 7 (6.09%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.35%) IP Telephony
6 5 (4.35%) NAS
6 5 (4.35%) SAN
6 5 (4.35%) SNMP
6 5 (4.35%) VLAN
6 5 (4.35%) VoIP
7 4 (3.48%) Wireshark
8 3 (2.61%) InfiniBand
8 3 (2.61%) LAN
8 3 (2.61%) WAN
9 2 (1.74%) VoLTE
9 2 (1.74%) Wireless
10 1 (0.87%) STUN
10 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.70%) Power BI
3 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.48%) Metabase
5 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (64.35%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.17%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.35%) Law
4 5 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Advertising
6 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.74%) Marketing
6 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Games
7 1 (0.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (25.22%) IT Support
2 27 (23.48%) Support Engineer
3 21 (18.26%) Senior
4 18 (15.65%) Analyst
5 17 (14.78%) IT Engineer
5 17 (14.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (13.04%) Support Analyst
7 12 (10.43%) Administrator
8 10 (8.70%) Applications Support
8 10 (8.70%) Applications Support Analyst
8 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Developer
10 8 (6.96%) IT Administrator
11 7 (6.09%) Senior Support Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) Consultant
12 6 (5.22%) Technical Consultant
13 5 (4.35%) Help Desk Support
13 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 5 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
13 5 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) .NET
2 4 (3.48%) XML
3 3 (2.61%) CSS
3 3 (2.61%) HTML
3 3 (2.61%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.74%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (1.74%) Node.js
4 2 (1.74%) Web Services
5 1 (0.87%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.35%) Blackberry
6 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.48%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.74%) Social Media
9 1 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 63 (54.78%) Windows
2 28 (24.35%) Linux
3 14 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 12 (10.43%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.09%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (5.22%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.61%) Android
7 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.61%) VMS
7 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.74%) CentOS
9 1 (0.87%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.87%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.61%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.26%) Computer Science
2 21 (18.26%) ITIL
3 19 (16.52%) Mentoring
4 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (13.91%) Migration
6 15 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 14 (12.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (10.43%) Decision-Making
8 12 (10.43%) DevOps
9 11 (9.57%) Agile
10 10 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (7.83%) Data Migration
11 9 (7.83%) Inventory Management
11 9 (7.83%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.96%) Process Improvement
12 8 (6.96%) Project Management
12 8 (6.96%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) SQL
2 19 (16.52%) PowerShell
3 17 (14.78%) Python
4 7 (6.09%) X++
5 6 (5.22%) Bash
6 5 (4.35%) C#
7 4 (3.48%) C++
7 4 (3.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (35.65%) Degree
2 30 (26.09%) MCSE
3 22 (19.13%) Azure Certification
3 22 (19.13%) MCP
4 20 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (15.65%) A+ Certification
6 16 (13.91%) MCSA
7 13 (11.30%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (11.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (8.70%) CCNA
9 8 (6.96%) Security Cleared
10 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
11 5 (4.35%) CCNP
11 5 (4.35%) HND
12 4 (3.48%) Dell Certification
13 3 (2.61%) ISSEP
13 3 (2.61%) LPIC
13 3 (2.61%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (2.61%) RHCE
13 3 (2.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) GDPR
2 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.87%) NCSC
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (29.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.96%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.96%) vSphere
5 7 (6.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.61%) GPFS
6 3 (2.61%) Lustre
6 3 (2.61%) NFS
7 2 (1.74%) Firmware
8 1 (0.87%) Docker
8 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.61%) CASB
2 3 (2.61%) PaperCut
3 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.87%) SCCM
3 1 (0.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) vRealize
3 1 (0.87%) VxRail
Vendors
1 108 (93.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.87%) VMware
3 15 (13.04%) Cisco
4 9 (7.83%) Apple
5 8 (6.96%) Citrix
6 7 (6.09%) Google
6 7 (6.09%) Veeam
7 5 (4.35%) Dell
7 5 (4.35%) McAfee
8 4 (3.48%) SAP
9 3 (2.61%) Forcepoint
9 3 (2.61%) Qualys
9 3 (2.61%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.74%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.87%) NETGEAR
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle
11 1 (0.87%) Sage